Wendy sees a picture of a beach and then later tries to draw the picture from memory.She draws shells on the beach even though the beach in the picture had no shells.Using cognitive psychologists' concept of schema, how could we explain Wendy's error?

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Wendy's schema of how a typical beach looks includes shells. This means that she expects to see shells on a beach and her memory of the picture she saw was influenced by this schema. This led her to incorrectly add shells to her drawing even though there were none in the original picture.

Wendy Sees a Picture of a Beach and Then Later